mousikos Portable Music Player Manager Developer Notes

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mousikos checkout mousikos

• Support for actual portable mp3 players !!. :^)

Personally I would like get support for the digisette AR-100 mp3 player since I got one for Christmas and I love it.(about the AR-100) It's great to take radio shows in the car with you as it has a standard cassette form factor. For this I'm reading up on USB right now. Support for players apart from the digisette will help this project evolve though. A goal of this project is to be generic enough to be used with multiple portable music players. If you are interested in supporting your favorite portable mp3 player take a look at fakep3_16.h and fakep3_16.c. You will need to provide routines similar to these.

• Builds on different systems.

 It would be nice if people tried to compile it on different distributions so we can eliminate build problems. Right now "./configure" and "make"  have been tested on Red Hat 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0. Anybody running other distributions want to give it a shot? Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, gentoo? Keep in mind mousikos requires gnome 1.4. All you need to do is download the current release and do "./configure" and "make". Then tell me if it works or not. If it doesn't, you could try to figure it out yourself or send me a log with the errors.

• HIG police.

I would like mousikos to be as compliant as possible. If you spot any "violations" of the Human Interface Guidelines please bring them to my attention. (or become a developer and fix it!)

• Help on the GUI itself.

If you want features or something doesn't work right please submit a bug. If you want to step further you can even fix it yourself!

• Graphics/Icon

If you think you  have any artistic talent you can help out.

• Documentation

Even though I would like the whole app to be intuitive and self documenting through tooltips and the status bar good documentation always helps.

• Internationalization and translation

This makes a difference. I'm Greek myself and I know that most Greek Linux users can communicate in English fairly well. I believe this is not true for the average population of any non-English speaking country however. If mousikos is to be used by, say, my extended family communication in their native tongue is a must.

• Binary distribution

To make it easier for people to install and use.

• GTK+ Programming in C by Syd Logan. This book is actually good for someone starting out programming with GTK+. It assumes good working knowledge of C. If there was only one GTK book I could buy this would be it. It has a good introduction and an extended reference with examples. (does not cover GTK 2)
• GTK+/Gnome Application Development by Havoc Pennington. This book is for the more advanced GTK+  programmer. If you want to get a little deeper in the workings of GTK and Gnome, this is it. 
• C Problem Solving and Programming by Kenneth R. Barclay. OK C book from one of my college classes. It has a pretty good introduction to C and has served as a reference ever since.